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2018-09-10
Join us in celebrating spring in the southern hemisphere!
We are happy to share the news about the new South American destinations of JetSMART: routes to Argentina - Mendoza, Buenos Aires and Córdoba - are now available at ultra low prices, only at JetSMART!
The DGITAL team is proud to take part of this expansion as business partner of JetSMART.
2018-08-21
The Aviation Festival London is now in its 15th year. Terrapinn - the organizer of the event - examined the latest technology trends impacting the aviation and travel industry and listed the top five buzzwords featured on their three-day, 300+ speaker agenda.
Digital Surprise! Number one is, of course digital. Digital technology is allowing airlines to rethink current archaic processes and build fantastic digital experiences into their offering.
Experience A new model of the relationship with customers is emerging, one that is agile, consistent and ultimately more personalised. A lot of this is being done by utilising digital technologies and embracing the power of being mobile-first to create a unique and engaging passenger experience.
Loyalty Many airlines have rewritten loyalty rules in recent years to make their rewards more personalised and their programs more profitable. One of the many challenges in the loyalty space is around the fact that customers are unique and want different things. One way to address this is through dynamic offers.
Ancillary Online retailers have increased passenger’s expectations tenfold, the average traveller is used to contextual marketing, personalised experiences and a fast-acting service. To evolve airlines need to take big digital transformation lessons from mainstream retailers to enhance passenger experience and boost sales.
AI Airlines are just starting to embrace artificial intelligence in all areas of the business. Initially a tool for revenue managers it now permeates throughout the whole passenger experience and could offer a whole host of solutions to improve everyday operations. Machine learning and AI have the potential to induce profitability and cut costs. It is going to be exciting to hear about the next generation AI tools being envisaged.
(via tnooz)
2018-07-27
Our South-American client JetSMART had a few milestones resently and we are proud to be part of their success.
JetSMART reached 1.000.000 passengers in May, have 12 Chilean destinations and an international destination: Peru. These numbers are growing by the minute and DGITAL will support all their efforts to become the largest ultra low cost airways in South America.
This video have been released to celebrate the first one million passengers:
JetSMART reached these goals well before their first anniversary and that makes their results even more amazing.
Way to go JetSMART!
2018-06-30
When mobile development was about to start, we went through our selection process whether to go with the current flow and use the “Latest & Greatest” technologies or to choose something which is rock solid and in the same time suitable for both the developer team and the business.
Our decision was the best cross platform mobile development tool available – Xamarin – which easily turns into native code in the hand of professionals. Among all the pros of using Xamarin for development, let us highlight a few we considered:
✓ Xamarin lets developers build native iOS and Android apps using a single language, C#, to create apps for all mobile platforms.
✓ C# is a mature language with strong safety-typing that prevents code from unexpected behavior.
✓ As C# is one of the .NET framework languages, it can be used with several useful .NET features.
✓ Xamarin comes in one package with a complete development toolset, thus, you don’t need to invest in additional tools or integrate the third-party apps to build, test and deploy your Xamarin apps.
✓ Xamarin is natively compiled, which makes it a go-to option for building high-performance apps with native look and feel.
✓ Apps can be tested on hundreds of devices via the Xamarin Cloud service.
Our conclusion was that the platform can decrease the time to market and engineering cost, by sharing the code and using a single technology stack. With standard UI which covers 90 percent of the projects, all the core product logic can be easily shared across the platforms. Hence, platform customization will only take 5-10 percent of the engineering effort.
2018-06-16
In case you are interested in the online travel business, we collected some business information we found promising
The online travel industry is made up of travel e-commerce sites - websites of airlines and online travel agencies (OTAs), selling travel products like flights, hotels, car rentals, etc. - and review sites like TripAdvisor. Global online travel sales have grown over the past few years and sales value of air travel, hotels and OTA's are all expected to constantly keep growing. We, travelers are relying more on travel review sites when booking therefore the influence of these are also increasing.
Before the internet boom when we wanted to book a trip and make reservations we had to visit a travel agency or order by phone – travel websites and mobile apps have been making digital travel arrangements increasingly easy. It is almost unthinkable nowadays not to be able to plan and book everything beforehand – we appreciate the ability to create our own itineraries with the help of digital tools like travel planning websites, price comparison sites or review portals that provide us with the option to directly book our hotel at listed locations.
Most of travel sales still occur via desktop but mobile is catching up and travel apps are consistently ranked among the most popular categories in the app stores. In addition to outright travel app coverage, travel brands have also got travel app usage covered on social media – 95 percent of the leading travel brands have an Instagram profile.
2018-05-22
After all the work in the home-stretch of a big project and crossing the finish line in April, a get-together seemed appropriate. As some new colleagues joined us in the meantime, we all felt the urge to have a party - the sooner the better.
On a cloudy Friday morning we left the office and headed for Budakeszi, with everything we’d need to cook a fine meal outside and have some - or more - fun.
As for the music, the lineup was more than satisfactory...
To pamper our tired back and shoulders, we invited Rapid Massage Service and it turned out to be a good idea :)
We even managed to get together for the mandatory tableau pic.
The last challenge of the day was to pack up after dark and leave the park quitely – mission accomplished.
2018-05-10
...and there’s not enough coffee in the world to make time for everything.
The more we connect, the easier the cooperation, so to find a solution to keep everyone posted is the key to smooth operation. We had a few ideas to ease the burden on office emails, and as everyone know Slack, we decided to give it a shot.
Now, the countless options we have are kind of overwhelming. Sharing and discussing ideas and drafts quickly and effectively is a breeze and once everyone’s on the same page, we don’t have to have lengthy conversations on meetings and we can focus on what we do best: implementation and development. Automatic messages like pull requests or various business, operations and infrastructure related alerts from Jira, VSTS or Pingdom directed to Slack. How convenient.
And also, it’s a totally different feeling to “check-in” what the chatter is about in the #funtechnologies channel than to have unread emails you HAVE TO process. Our main goal was to keep our mailbox for official correspondence and not to discuss the gazillion tools available from office management to design. Creating polls to find the best place for the company dinner or shopping list for kitchen supplies are just a few of those small things that simply make our life easier.